Writing Quotes · Page 506

My husband says I have too much imagination, but I don't think a writer can have too much imagination!

— Judy Blume

“All marketers are storytellers. Only the losers are liars.”

— Seth Godin

“i didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.

— Michael Mosley

In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them.

— Marlon James

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

— Andrew O'Hagan

I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say.

— Anthony Jeselnik

I've had a bit of a crazy life. So writing lyrics in songs is easy for me.

— Tricky

Any writer knows that what's left out is as essential, if not more so, than what's there. Unlearning works that way.

— Lynne Tillman

“Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one”

— Jo Linsdell

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity…

— Bob Ney

As a kid, I pretty much got nothing but scorn, and occasionally active animus, for writing fantasy and squirreling it away in…

— Sherwood Smith

First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing,…

— Nawal El Saadawi

To write a good story there are four things that every author needs: 1. A beginning 2. A middle 3. An ending…

— Anonymous

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

— Anonymous

Through all this other stuff I was doing, I always went back to the writing, and it was writing that made me…

— Dannah Gresh

I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories,…

— Jasper Fforde

I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Writer/directors are, for me, the most inspiring people to work for because they are the person on set that knows the answer…

— Romola Garai

My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four…

— Langston Hughes

I think Don Henley is a brilliant contemporary rock writer. He would have been a fabulous poet if he weren't a musician.…

— Don Felder

“Writing down this mission statement is also a great way to "wake the page". That's the term I use to describe the…

— Ryder Carroll

I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost…

— Rebecca Miller

The healing power of music is vast. Music therapy is in its infancy in Western psychology. If we knew more, we'd be…

— Gary Talley

I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry.

— Jason Marsden

“The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.”

— Mark Twain

I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.

— Siobhan Fahey

“Write, if you must, because you feel like writing, never because you feel you ought to write.”

— John Fowles

There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.

— Brian Aldiss

Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.

— Brandon Sanderson

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

— Barry White

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

— Dermot Healy

“Anything is bearable as long as you can make a story out of it...”

— Anonymous

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I think it would be fun to write about movies again.

— Bill Condon

To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

— Bebe Moore Campbell

I had been writing and performing stand-up comedy pretty much the entire time I worked at Google.

— Sarah Cooper

The lovely thing about the writing life is that you can point it in any direction.

— Lawrence Wright

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

— Julianna Baggott

I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.

— Roxane Gay